Show locomotive EVER THE CENTER OF BOYHOOD DREAMS in the lexicon ot of youth there Is one word that fires the imagination locomotive even eten though the airplane has come to capture the fancy of youth the railroad engine still maintains its place in the affections of young boys ilon loe e of the railroad engine goes back to the dim past of this country there inere Is hardly a boy in america america who at some time has not looked with immeasurable pride on a railroad engine whether it be standing in the yards or in a railroad station or plowing its way across country in ids its mind the average boy sees himself sitting at the cab window fondling the cord attached to the whistle pulling down the throttle A glamorous figure the railroad engineer always lias has been and probably always will be a hero to tile the growing boy there Is a reason the man who controls a railroad engine lias his in his hands the power to move worlds A train gliding over the countryside in the twilight or the early dawn of day has aboard all the boyhood fancies on the side 0 of the road whether he be standing in a corn field oron a sidewalk watching a train go by the average boy dreams of 0 fardis far dis tant places where the train Is go ing As it speeds away the mighty iron engine becomes become a mythical me benger carrying lilg his thoughts so the engine has become symbolic bolic of mighty deeds find and great adventures in the heart of american boyhood from time morable american boys have been stirred by the heroism of 0 railroad engineers who stopped their trains on the very verge of r and of track trach men who lyent out of their way to save lives but always it has been the engineer and the engine that occupy first thoughts with tile boys always the engine will be beloved jn in a country that the engine helped cultivate washington post |